East African Prose Fiction Question Paper

East African Prose Fiction

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2010/2011
INSTITUTIONAL BASED PROGRAMME (IBP) - (AUGUST SESSION)
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS AND
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

ALT 200: EAST AFRICAN PROSE FICTION

DATE:
Wednesday 29th December 2010
TIME: 11.00a.m -1.00p.m

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer three questions. Question ONE is compulsory

1.
Define East African prose and situate its thematic development from the period

before colonization to the present.

[26marks]

2.
How does Ngugi wa Thiong?o respond to colonization in Weep Not, Child?

[22marks]

3.
?The East African Woman is a product of her environment.?

Discuss how this may hold true with illustrations from Majorie Oludhe

Macgoye?s Coming to Birth.

[22marks]

4.
Discuss the defining characteristics of the urban novel in East Africa drawing

illustrations from either Meja Mwangi?s Kill me Quick, Going Down River

Road or The Cockroach Dance.

[22marks]

5.
Discuss the role played by the Asian Community in the Socio-political evolution

of East Africa as depicted in Peter Nazareth?s In a Brown Mantle. [22marks]

7.
?The short story genre in East Africa has focused more on societal discomforts

than on history?. Discuss the validity of this statement.

[22marks]
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